Usually means: Before surgical procedure or operation.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word preoperative:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. preoperative: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. preoperative: Merriam-Webster
  3. preoperative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. preoperative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. preoperative: Collins English Dictionary
  6. preoperative: Vocabulary.com
  7. Preoperative, preoperative: Wordnik
  8. preoperative: Wiktionary
  9. preoperative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. preoperative: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. preoperative: Dictionary.com
  12. preoperative: Rhymezone
  13. preoperative: FreeDictionary.org
  14. preoperative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. preoperative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. preoperative: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Preoperative: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. Preoperative: GLOSSARY of BLOOD RELATED TERMS
  7. preoperative: Medical dictionary
  8. Preoperative: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (preoperative)

▸ adjective:  Prior to surgery.
▸ noun:  A transgender person who has not yet undergone gender reassignment surgery.

Similar:
presurgery, pre-operative, preoperation, pre-op, preoperational, preprocedural, pretransplantation, pre-surgical, preprocedure, preop, more...

Opposite:
postoperative, after surgery

Phrases:
preoperative care, preoperative fasting, preoperative starvation, preoperative record, preoperative cast, more...

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Similar:
presurgery, pre-operative, preoperation, pre-op, preoperational, preprocedural, pretransplantation, pre-surgical, preprocedure, preop, more...

Opposite:
postoperative, after surgery

Phrases:
preoperative care, preoperative fasting, preoperative starvation, preoperative record, preoperative cast, more...

Colors:
    blue,     green,     white,     light blue,     teal, more...



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